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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Regarding the amazon complaint news story - I also had temporarily forgotten which thread I was in: I thought I was in this thread where it was linked to a news article about a big boom in Kindle sales over the holidays yet the e-*book* purchases didn't also increase ....
Yes, one cannot compare e-books to ipods, I was talking about people who bought e-readers thinking they could be filled up just as easily, with very inexpensive material of their choice. They assumed that e-books would be just as easy to obtain.
For me most e-books are easy to obtain because I like Austen, Dickens, Les Miserables, etc.... I was like a kid in a candy store for project gutenberg. I was able to get people interested in e-readers because I told all about the gold mine that is MR library and Project Gutenberg. So for me, the e-reader has paid for itself with all the stuff I formerly bought (I actually had spent birthday gift money on $8 book copies from the classic section of a book store), and could replace all that and more.
But for others it's..... "Dickens, ewww I didn't look at Oliver Twist voluntarily after I got my diploma!" |
Your comments made me wonder if there was a spike in downloads at Project Gutenberg because of Christmas Kindles. Since they conveniently provide
pretty charts it was easy to check. Starting Dec 25 overall downloads spiked, but Kindle's share of the total didn't increase that much despite millions of units being added. It will be interesting to see in the months ahead if those numbers shift as new Kindle owners discover Project Gutenberg. Although perhaps they are content to download the available classics that Amazon offers free.